OnsceneALERT
Nov 8, 20212 min
CRITICAL INCIDENT NOTIFICATION
PUBLIC SAFETY THREAT
Brown, Cornell and Columbia University evacuated parts of their campuses on Sunday after receiving bomb threats, just days after another bomb threat was reported at Yale University. It is not clear if the threats are connected, and no suspect has been publicly identified connected to any of the calls, which were all later deemed to be false threats.
Columbia said it issued "a campus-wide emergency alert" after receiving threats to school buildings. The New York City school warned students to avoid the area while police investigate, but later said the threat was deemed "not credible" and it was safe to return.
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Cornell, which is located in upstate New York, issued a similar statement, reporting that police "received a call of bombs being placed" in multiple buildings, including the law school. Hours later, the school said "no credible threats were found."
Officials at Brown, which is located in Rhode Island, confirmed to CBS News that the school had also received a bomb threat on Sunday, and "evacuated several buildings near the university's college green." A spokesman for the school later issued an all clear, and said buildings that had been evacuated are now reopened.
The news comes after multiple bomb threats were called into Yale on Friday, according to CBS New York. Police responded to the scene and gave students the all-clear to return later Friday evening.
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Incident Number
2-211107-7601
Alert Type
Critical Incident Notification
Incident Type
Public Safety Threat
Incident Occurred
November 7, 2021
Alert Posted
November 7, 2021
Last Updated
November 7, 2021
Location
Multiple Locations
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